Saturday, January 30, 2010

Interesting facts about fast foods



  • A single chocolate chip provides enough energy for a human to walk 150ft.
  • Adding french fries and a large cola brings the total calories to an amazing 1,500 calories (2/3 of an adult man’s recommended daily caloric intake). A man would need to walk for about nine miles to burn it off. 
  • The CDC estimates that 248,000 Americans die prematurely due to obesity and considers obesity as the number two cause of preventable death in the US (the #1 cause is smoking)
  • If you decide to avoid fast foods which contain HFCS, then you have to  avoid 95% of Mc Donalds menu.
  • Even subway which is famous for Healthy Fat free Diet, contains HFCS in its wheat bread and sour dough bread.
  • When it was revealed in 1990 that McDonald's used beef tallow to flavor its french fries, Hindu vegetarian customers in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, ransacked a McDonald’s restaurant and smeared cow dung on a statue of Ronald MacDonald.
  • A man would need to walk for about nine miles to burn it off. Adding french fries and a large cola brings the total calories to an amazing 1,500 calories (2/3 of an adult man’s recommended daily caloric intake).
  • Coca-Cola originally included coca derivatives such as cocaine in their sodas, which at the time was not illegal. It was originally served as a “brain tonic and intellectual soda fountain beverage
  • When McDonald's opened an outlet in Kuwait shortly after the end of the Gulf War, the line of cars waiting to eat there was seven miles long
  • Today, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo products are sold in every country in the world, except North Korea. 
  • In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour 
  • Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America
  • McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us 
  • Coco-cola can be used as car oil imagine how much harm it does to the body

4 comments:

Malar Gandhi said...

Yes, I agree with you...there are only very items that are devoid of HFCS in America, cola, beer, cereals....you name it.

Gita Jaishankar said...

wow..interesting post...even I was shocked after reading this dear :)

Raje said...

Interesting posts! Thanks for visiting my blog and leading me to yours. Will check back often for more interesting posts like this and new recipes....

The Messy Chef said...

Great facts. Thanks for sharing that - I reposted.